Jordan Espinosa
Wants to fight: [autotag]Tyson Nam[/autotag]
The callout: “Man I’m trying to get on ‘Fight Island!’ I was supposed to have my first international fight. I’ve never even been overseas before. It was supposed to be in Kazakhstan today and that got scrapped because of COVID. But I’m down to get on the July 25 card on Fight Island. Tyson Nam just got a knockout. I’d be down to fight him.”
The reality: Not all callouts are made the same. Some are highly-strung, emotional pleas for a chance, others are heated calls to face a rival and some resemble matter-of-fact business transactions. [autotag]Jordan Espinosa[/autotag]’s post-fight callout of Tyson Nam certainly fell into the latter category.
Espinosa delivered an excellent performance to outpoint Mark De La Rosa in his bantamweight bout, then delivered a clear, sensible callout against a fighter on the same timeline as his own. Nam had just knocked out Zarrukh Adashev in his preliminary card fight and stated his wish to return to action as swiftly as possible, and Espinosa offered to make the matchmakers’ jobs easy for them by putting himself forward to be the man to face him. He even stated his wish to compete on “Fight Island,” where the UFC is currently looking to fill out its four-fight cards for the 14-day run of events in Abu Dhabi.
Espinosa’s callout certainly made plenty of sense to me when he said it live, but does it make sense to you, too? Let us know via the poll below.
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